Frontus beats Saperstein in Assembly race
After months of waiting, the 46th Assembly District finally has an assemblymember.
Unrepresented since the resignation of former Assemblymember Pamela Harris, who stepped down in the wake of an 11-count indictment on a slew of corruption charges, the district — which runs from Coney Island to Bay Ridge — on Tues., Nov. 6, chose to send Democrat Mathylde Frontus to Albany as its next representative.
Frontus defeated Republican-Conservative candidate Steve Saperstein, securing 54.1 percent of the vote, and defeating Saperstein by 2,927 votes. In September, Frontus won a narrow victory in the Democratic primary, upsetting establishment-backed Ethan Lustig-Elgrably for the Democratic nomination by a mere 51 votes.